"Wait yonder," he said darkly to Nahoum.

As the door opened, and Nahoum disappeared leisurely and composedly, David caught a glimpse of a guard of armed Nubians in leopard-skins filed against the white wall of the other room.
"What is thy intention towards Nahoum, Effendina ?" David asked presently.
Kaid's voice was impatient.

"Thou hast asked his life--take it; it is thine; but if I find him within these walls again until I give him leave, he shall go as Foorgat went." "What was the manner of Foorgat's going ?" asked David quietly.
"As a wind blows through a court-yard, and the lamp goes out, so he went--in the night.

Who can say?
Wherefore speculate?
He is gone.

It is enough.